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Signal

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193 articles decelerating

Signal has appeared in 193 articles since 2015-11. Coverage peaked in 2025Q1 with 14 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram, Apple.

Articles
193
mentions
Velocity
-85.7%
growth rate
Acceleration
-3.357
velocity change
Sources
64
publications

Coverage Timeline

2025-03-28
Reuters 17 related

A US federal judge orders agencies whose leaders participated in the Signal chat on the Houthi attacks to preserve all messages sent from March 11 to March 15

www.politico.com/news/2025/03... Mastodon: Pernille Tranberg / @pernillet@mastodon.online : Good for Signal  —  Signal is experiencing massive downloads after the Atlantic was let into a group of high...

2024-09-02
Reuters

A look at France's J3 cybercrime unit, which took charge of the Sky ECC probe and Encrochat prosecutions and now leads the case against Telegram CEO Pavel Durov

Gabriel Stargardter / Reuters : X: @gabstargardter and @kaepora X: Gabriel Stargardter / @gabstargardter : I wrote about the small Paris cybercrime unit, led by 38-year-old prosecutor Johanna Brousse...

2024-08-30
New York Times 3 related

Sources: the cryptology part of France's charges against Pavel Durov raises concerns at US tech companies with E2EE messaging apps, like Signal, Apple, and Meta

The criminal charges against Pavel Durov, Telegram's founder, raised concerns in Silicon Valley about encryption and the app's approach to privacy and security.

2024-08-27
Politico 14 related

French President Emmanuel Macron says the government was not involved in the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and “this is in no way a political decision”

Roblox has more daily active users than TikTok, but is rarely covered for example Alex Howard / @digiphile : This is not the “end of global social media,” as @semaforben suggested, but it may be the b...

2024-04-28
Bloomberg 6 related

Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal's disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC's antitrust case against Amazon

and it wants to know more Mastodon: @gme@queerfedi.com : @Techmeme@techhub.social I disagree with that.  As long as they didn't use disappearing messages for the sole purpose to conceal evidence then ...

2024-04-27
Bloomberg 9 related

Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal's disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC's antitrust case against Amazon

- Agency accuses retail giant of failing to preserve documents  — Top executives communicated via Signal disappearing chats

2024-03-29
MacRumors 22 related

Apple sues an ex-employee for allegedly leaking details about the Journal app and more to journalists, to “kill” products and features with which he took issue

https://www.macrumors.com/... @Laukidh@infosec.exchange : @Techmeme “In a November 2023 interview, Apple alleges that Aude denied leaking confidential information to anyone.  However, during that inte...

2023-11-03
Bloomberg 17 related

The FTC says Jeff Bezos ordered Amazon executives to accept more junk ads to boost profits; Amazon used disappearing Signal chats from June 2019 to early 2022

- FTC releases less redacted antitrust complaint against Amazon  — Amazon counters that the FTC is ‘wrong on facts and the law’

2023-10-27
Bloomberg 13 related

A live blog of Sam Bankman-Fried's testimony in front of a jury at his criminal fraud trial in NYC over the collapse of FTX

given how today's testimony went even with limited ammunition from prosecutors, it seems disastrous to allow SBF to undergo cross-examination in the presence of a jury Jacob Silverman / @silvermanjaco...

2023-10-12
Bloomberg 27 related

US v. SBF: Caroline Ellison says SBF asked her to make false balance sheets to hide debt, he considered offering FTX shares to the Saudi crown prince, and more

Caroline testified that SBF ordered her to use FTX customer funds to cover up for Alameda's losses — and to lie to lenders about it.  She was in a “constant state of dread” about the looming liquidity...

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Signal has appeared in 190 Techmeme articles since January 2015. The biggest stories include Trump officials accidentally added The Atlantic's EIC to a Signal group chat about the... and Perplexity's unsolicited $34.5B bid for Chrome with claimed VC backing is clearly a.... Frequently covered alongside WhatsApp, Telegram, Meredith Whittaker, Android, and Facebook. Coverage has shifted toward developer, consumer themes and away from regulation, safety.

Key Moments

2024Q2safety +18pts; developer +9pts; consumer -14pts
2024Q3safety -18pts; developer -9pts; consumer +21pts
2024Q4enterprise +33pts; consumer -33pts; regulation -33pts

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